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Keywords:
critical curves; mixed elliptic boundary value problem; sensitivity analysis; mass movement problems; stability analysis
Summary:
The paper deals with the problem of finding a curve, going through the interior of the domain $\Omega$, accross which the flux $\partial u/\partial n$, where $u$ is the solution of a mixed elliptic boundary value problem solved in $\Omega$, attains its maximum.
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